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Fans of the heavier end of psychedelic rock, we have some good news for you! Swedish heavy-hitters Les Big Byrd have a new song out and they’ve set their controls to melt your brain. They have a new LP coming out called ‘Diamonds, Rhinestones and Hard Rain’ which will appear in March ’24. The first
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Both Young Thug and Donald Trump are up against the Georgia legal system, on a RICO trial, and both camps will be watching each other closely. This leaves people in a unique bind, where the innocence of one may directly influence the innocence of the other. See, broadly speaking, they’re being accused of the same
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Having watched the Kanye and Ty Dolla listening party, there were a number of moments worth talking about. And not for the first time, we have an element of separating the art from the artist, because as much of a piece of shit Ye has been lately, regrettably, he can still make a great tune.
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Given that 70% of the world uses Android, Apple are a strange phenomena given that, being the primary operating service in the States, it has a particularly loud voice in the marketing world. Of course, Apple fans are so sewn into the iOS mainframe that they can’t conceive of a world outside itself (which is
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Not technically a mix, but some bright spark has uploaded an old tape that would have had an old department store ringing out with festive cheers. And it’s surprisingly groovy in places, if you’re looking for something to stick on while you wrap the presents and drink 4 bottles of Baileys. Or, if work doesn’t
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End of year round-ups can be a pretty predictable affair, with publications counting on fandoms of massive stars boosting their signal, be it an inflated spot on the chart, or a provocatively low spot designed to agitate. Of course, some massive releases are worthy of lofty positions, but we prefer to give spots to the
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On Monday, we’ll be announcing our LPs of 2023. We figured that this will leave it late enough that no-one will surprise us with a complete masterpiece and ruin everything. We’ve tried to go for albums that are away from the grain, but honestly, it’s what we were listening to the most, so we’re not
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We are prepping ourselves to do our End Of Year lists, but it’s more of an emotional readying because they take ages to do. What doesn’t help is that everyone has started releasing Christmas songs to really give us a deadline. Thankfully, the one we’re sharing from Anastasia Coope is a little freaky gem. While
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Just the other day, everyone was sharing their Spotify Wrapped graphics and having a giggle and all that, but things were about to get tremendously serious at Spotify HQ. This week, the streaming behemoth announced that they’d be sacking 17% of their staff. That’s around 1,500 people losing their pay just before Christmas. Pretty brutal.
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We’ve covered Wishy before and they’re back with another little gem. On December 15th, Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites will have a new EP out, and to prep you for this, we can have a listen to new song ‘Spinning’. We like it. Gentle psychedelia. Dream Pop, they call it now. The band say they
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PSYCHEDELIC MIX FROM LÉNA C
Léna C has been making waves with her brilliant record selections for a minute now, and even better is that she’s put some cool tunes out of her own. Léna’s ‘Promenade’ EP is a firm favourite at Pop Corps (check it out here). Now, she’s done a brilliant psych folk mix for the magic My…
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HALEY BLAIS IS LOOKING FOR PROBLEMS
Haley Blais is apparently a YouTuber. We don’t really know anything about that. What we do know is that her new single is called ‘Matchmaker’ and it’s cool! It’s classic Bedroom Pop, which is always super charming when done correctly. It’s almost the introvert version of garage rock, isn’t it? It’s all enthusiastically and amateurishly…
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A CRIMINALLY HOOLIGAN TREND: THE STORY OF RUSSIAN BOOTLEG X-RAY ALBUMS
If you’re fortunate enough to live in a country that pretty much lets you listen to whatever music you want, then the idea of clandestine record pressing may sound strange. However, the human need to listen to cool music is insatiable, and one of the most fascinating stories comes from Soviet Russia, where the government…
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ABBA SAY ‘NO’ [OR ‘NEJ’]
Thanks to a slightly suss panel vote at the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, Sweden once again won the show, equalling Ireland’s record for most times won, and also, giving Eurovision legend Loreen another crown. Why suss? Well, the public clearly wanted a different winner, and the 2024 show just so happens to coincide with a…
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